Alina

When Death Comes By Mary Oliver

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.




The Mysteries of the human heart
By Alina
Others might say that they are like a ball of yarn; with one tug they will become unraveled.
I am the opposite; it takes much more than a little tug for me to unravel.
Others cry over the simplest things,
But my tears do not flow freely.
When I cry it must truly be devastating.
You see I am different.
I have been hardened by the actualities of life.
I wonder why people go and see scary movies,
When reality is scary enough
When you think about it we are traveling into the unknown.
We will not know what the future has in store for us.
We are no longer children nor are we adults.
We are expected to be able to make our own decisions, but we don’t always know what is good for us.
We are caught in the middle. The area that helps define us
Where we build who we are in a safe environment
This is where we learn everything from when and how to love someone to how to pass a geometry test.
With all of this you might think that I do not love freely, but that is one contradiction to who I am
When I love someone I give them my whole heart.
And I will not let them go of them as long as they don’t let go of me.
This is great, but it is also a curse.
When you love someone and you give them your heart, that had been broken so many times before.
You think that they are the one exception, the one that will love you and give you their heart
But as always they are not the exception they are in fact the rule.
Then your heart just gets broken into a million pieces again.
But no matter what they do they always seem to take a piece of your heart with them, so no matter what you do your heart will never be whole again.
Hopefully I will be able to hold onto enough pieces of my heart so that when I do find the exception I will be able to give him my fragile heart
Then maybe my heart can start to heal
Maybe it will someday be whole again.


Grammar By Alina

I am the one thing you have not mastered

I wonder why you can’t just understand

I hear nothing that you say

I see you slaving over your tests and quizzes

I worry that you will fail because I am too hard

I want to be the most beloved thing about English class


I pretend to be easy

I feel remorseful when I make you cry

I touch the deepest and darkest places of your heart

I worry your parents about your grades

I cry only when I have not done my job

I am your biggest nightmare


I understand that you hate me

I say only things that will get me noticed

I dream of making children like you realize your full potential

I hope that I will not ever be too hard for you

I am grammar


English Class By Alina
Ecstatic in the mornings when I find that,
Nothing stands in the way of me having English class first period.
Gliding up the stairs trying to get there as fast as I can
Loving every minute of English class
It is inconceivable how anybody would not like it
Sure enough it is the best class in the world, and its home is the class room that is
Home to Mrs. Nobles
Creativity is never ending in this class
Learning the lessons of English is the best part of my day.
After English class I am sad because I won’t have it again until tomorrow, One English class a day is not
Sufficient for me, I
Should just stay in English class all day

Antidisestablishmentarianism
All knowing
Not interested
Tumultuous
Indecisive
Doting
Instinctive
Self-pitied
Enamored
Sultry
Time wasting
Abolishment
Bullying
Lord of establishment
Incite me with the
Shared knowledge of the world
Hinder my thought process with all of your achievements
Make me want to establish something, you
Egotistical
Nemesis of
The world
Are you happy?
Receiving the retributions of our society
Intellectual beasts holding us
Against our will waiting for us to
Not have knowledge of your real goal
Instead of helping the world become a better place you
Snub our comments and ignore our
Mad cries for help

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